Is this correct behaviour? I was not expecting the words to be highlighted as the cursor is not over the word.

Currently, if my cursor is on top of the word that appears in my search, it will be highlighted according to Matchmaker's highlight setting, but ignore the search highlight. See in this example where my cursor is over "brew" and I also did a search for "brew":

Instances of "brew" that are not exact matches are still search highlighted orange, while exact matches are highlighted

In the case where the Matchmaker highlight need not conflict with the search highlight (Can have both underline and background color highlights), I would love for Matchmaker to show both highlights rather than just Matchmaker's highlight. In the case above, I would see both an underline and an orange background highlight.

Perhaps you could look at the current search buffer, see if it contains the word the cursor is currently on top of, and if so, apply both the search highlight as well as Matchmaker's highlight?

It would be nice to be able to delay the highlight so that when you are scrolling quickly through code there is no studdering.

This script is similar to this one and has the delay:

hicursorwords.vim http://www.vim.org/scripts/script.php?script_id=4306

I even tried to hack in the "delay" function from that script into yours but it did not work:

function! s:HiCursorWords__startHilighting()
    let b:HiCursorWords__oldUpdatetime = &updatetime
    let &updatetime = g:HiCursorWords_delay
    augroup HiCursorWordsUpdate
        autocmd!
        autocmd CursorHold,CursorHoldI  *
                \ if exists('b:HiCursorWords__oldUpdatetime') | let &updatetime =     b:HiCursorWords__oldUpdatetime | endif
                \ | call s:HiCursorWords__execute()
    augroup END
endfunction       

So I thought I would ask if you guys knew how to do this or if you could add it to your script.

Thanks for the GREAT script!

When there is an active visual selection, Matchmaker should attempt to match that instead of <cword>.

Please!

Many thanks for this great plugin! It does for me what most GUI IDEs do, and it doesn't even interfere with vim's search highlighting.

It would be nice if there were an option to disable highlighting when there are no matches to the word under the cursor. It seems unnecessary to highlight the word under the cursor if there is nothing else to highlight.

Thanks!

My understanding is that it should be possible to customize the highlight colors for matchmaker by adding something like highlight Matchmaker guibg=yellow guifg=black to the vim config before the plugin is loaded. However, I cannot get this to work i my neovim setup. It seems like changes to the highlight group only are effective if done inside of the plugin file.

I have no clue why that is. Could be because of other plugins, my gruvbox colorscheme, a neovim thing, ... .

My current solution is this:
master...rompetroll:master

With this new variable, the plugin will link the Matchmaker highlight group to a different group. Example usage:

let g:matchmaker_hl_group='underlined'

Now, while this works, I would prefer if I could set highlight link Matchmaker underlined in my user config instead.

Great plugin, thanks :)

I currently have this in my ~/.vimrc

autocmd VimEnter * Matchmaker

Matchmaker causes quite a performance drain when I'm navigating large source files.

See this screen recording where just navigating up and down lines of code if very slow and laborious with Matchmaker turned on, but very fast and smooth with Matchmaker turned off.

I'd like to keep Matchmaker always turned on, like most GUI IDEs. However, doing so is too much of a performance drain right now. How about not triggering Matchmaker until the cursor has come to rest? This is the behavior in Xcode.

I'm considering adding tab completion to the :Matchmaker command (to complete on and off and any future commands), but I wonder if it would just be better to have a separate command for each, which seems to be the usual vim way of doing things. I welcome any input anyone has to offer.

You can see in the below screenshot that although my cursor is not actually on any word at all, Matchmaker is highlighting (underlining) the word closest to the cursor.

It's very strange that anything should be highlighted when I'm not focusing on anything. I find it much more of a distraction than it is helpful. Could we highlight words only when the cursor is truly on top of them? Or perhaps at least make this an option?

Thanks!